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Re: a!b@c

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From: Soenke Behrens
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:46
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In article <1992Nov11.171805.20395@news.acns.nwu.edu>, skrenta@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rich Skrenta) writes:

|> And what of:
|> 
|> 	b%a@c
|> 
|> Is there a standard which addresses this?  Are most sites giving
|> @ higher precedence, or !?

Hmm. I think there is a standard, but I can't name it right now. What b%a@c
does is to deliver to c, which then has to parse the b%a before that, usually
making it into b@a and then sending it on. Is used a lot with gateways where
the sending system knows nothing about the net behind the gateway:

user%machine-in-other-net@gateway-to-other-net
-- 
===========================================================================
More than silver, more than gold, I need   !    behrenss@informatik.
electricity. I need it for my dreams.      !    tu-muenchen.de
(RACTER)                                   !  FIDO: 2:246/13 Soenke Behrens
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Subject: Re: a!b@c
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